A mother Coot stands over her eggs at her nest which is bound to a fence post now claimed by the lake
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
kat
AI Luddite. Extremely online since 1994. Solidarity forever.
kat boosted:
Lab-grown salmon cleared for sale in the United States. Wildtype’s 'cultured' salmon is made in a lab from a few cells, meaning no farmed or wild salmon need die to fill out your sashimi. In May 2025, the FDA approved Wildtype’s salmon for commercial sale, paving the way for the world’s first commercial sales of cell-based seafood. The company says its sushi-grade product will debut in restaurants this year. AgFunder https://buff.ly/yJiHfus
#ShareGoodNewsToo
kat boosted:
This is a #FediHire post, but it's not about technology, so I don't know how helpful the fediverse will be.
I have a PHD in math and nine years of experience teaching university students. I want to leave higher education and become a high school math teacher, but I am not certified.
I'm in the U.S. and have no easy way to leave. I also can't go four years without an income or health insurance.
What states would be the easiest for me to get at least provisionally certified to teach in?
Also keep in mind that I'm trans, so I am only willing to move to a state where it's legal for me to interact with teenagers and get health care.
#Teaching #Math #MathTeacher #GetFediHired
kat boosted:
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa
Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
kat boosted:
More accurate headline: 23andMe says 85% of its customers don't know they need to request to delete their data.
kat boosted:
While Trump has tanks rolling through DC for his authoritarian parade on Saturday, we’re taking to the streets everywhere else for No Kings Day. With nearly 2,000 events planned nationwide, this will be the single largest protest of this Trump administration. Join us: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
kat boosted:
New, by me: 23andMe's interim CEO says around 15% of its customers — close to 2 million people! — have asked the company to delete their genetic data following its bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, a coalition of 28 U.S. states have sued to block the sale of 23andMe's data without customers' consent.
kat boosted:
New! ‘No Kings’ protests suddenly take on a greater urgency https://www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-protests-suddenly-take-on?r=1ju529&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false From Heads Up News.
kat boosted:
Things go from bad to worse for Elmo, the incels' favourite crush.
"French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol. A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administration and his support for far-right parties in Europe."
kat boosted:
@indivisibleteam Also #NoKings #NoTyrants Days around the world!! Come out in solidarity. You can find the events here: https://www.democratsabroad.org/da-resist_events
kat boosted:
Anti-ICE protest happening now in #SanFrancisco. “No #ICE, no KKK, no #fascist #USA.”
kat boosted:
89 years ago today, a loudspeaker van carrying UK fascist leader Oswald Mosley and a tiny contingent of his Blackshirts arrived in Tonypandy, Wales.
Mosley has hoped that his (loudly) broadcast message of hatred and division would attract new recruits. Instead, about 6000 Welsh antifascists pelted him and his bodyguards with rocks and debris as he attempted to address the crowd, forcing the fascists to turn tale and flee for their lives, after less than half an hour.
Full story here: https://voice.cymru/1005-2/
#antifa, #originalantifa, #battleofdewintonfield, #tonypandy, #wales
kat boosted:
“Any further actions taken by the Crown or industry without our consent are considered unlawful, illegitimate, and an act of trespass under both Canadian and international law…”
kat boosted:
'Canada is on fire. The national media is focused on building pipelines for national unity. Oil production is at record levels. We are back of the pack in the G7 for failing all our environmental goals.'
Charlie Angus on 'Canada's oil obsession':
(via @charlieangus104.bsky.social on BlueSky)
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/burn-the-planet-save-the-county
kat boosted:
- “ .. COVID-19’s long-term effects, such as cardiovascular complications, respiratory issues, and undiagnosed illnesses due to deferred medical care, could still be playing out, leading to higher mortality claims even years after the peak of the pandemic.
"The virus may have triggered or worsened chronic illnesses that are now resulting in fatalities, and insurance data is just beginning to reflect that delayed impact..”
kat boosted:
June 11, 2025- “Life insurers grapple with post-Covid mortality spike” “Mortality claims for top life insurance companies have remained persistently high between FY20 and FY25 - hovering near one million annually.
This marks an almost 75 percent increase in death claims over five years, a sharp rise for an industry that fundamentally relies on stable mortality patterns.” - (paywall bypass link) - https://archive.md/2025.06.11-173524/https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/life-insurers-grapple-with-post-covid-mortality-spike-see-25-decline-in-insurance-coverage-13110923.html
kat boosted:
A website claims wildfire destroyed a single mom's clothing warehouse. But the store doesn't exist
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/a-website-claims-wildfire-destroyed-a-single-mom-s-clothing-warehouse-but-the-store-doesn-t-exist-1.7557826
kat boosted:
👀 Via Bloomberg:
NEW: The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned en masse to protest what it called unprecedented interference by the #Trump administration
kat boosted:
Go look at the U.S. federal vaccines hub -- do it now
ADDING: It's a DNS hack, pointing that .gov subdomain at an AWS site.
Just scroll down a bit. And I'll add, at the moment those pages are NSFW ... only the best people running stuff there now!
kat boosted:
New from 404 Media: Wikipedia has paused its experimental AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.
"Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to" https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst